XenoRanma: Ending this life, unto the next.. Ranma Pays his Dues. [Episode 14656]

by CrystalBlaze

He was atop a glassine mound, the place that he'd destroyed in his youth, in Battle far better than he deserved, against the Dragonprince(ss) Herb of the Musk.

Herb Him/Herself sat some distance away,intent on honoring Ranma's acceoptance of his sins, the expiation about to be unleashed upon the Last Neriman Wrecking Crewman BY his own hand.

He'd had to lie, as Ranma has NO faith in himself and would deny any honor, thus Herb simply said he was ensuring that Ranma DOES die.

When Ranma had returned to the lands of Musk, Pheonix, and Amazon, He'd fessed up instantly, expecting death.

Fat Chance.

They'd avoided conflict, sure his self-hate would twist and bring the ID back if they as much as sparred hard.

Ranma howled for a week, then he saw it, and smiled, and set about his final, most fitting deed, in his own eyes.

As he slowly bled, bled in efforts to die from his own chi turning on itself, the Hate of self renewed him, so this truly WAS his only way out, despite bleeding for a week straight.

So, sitting in Seizu, seeing the blood filling the runes that the Musk mage had inscribed, he looked to Herb, who raised the thing that Ranma would not touch, despite having carried it in a cloth all the way here, the last artifact of Nerima:

The Saotome Honor blade.

Then he tied the thing he'd found, that showed him the way out, about his head, thinkiong of the irony, the damned DAMNABLE irony, of finding a stash of the Lost Boy's.

Bandanna flashing yellow and black on his head, Saotome Ranma spoke for the last time. Not to anyone, even himself. Just spoke.

"Last time pays for all. You were wrong, I thought, back then. Not now. I WAS a Black Sorceror, a Pervert, a Baka, a Disgraceful Son and ANYTHING but a Man Among Men."

Pause. Building reddish-striped Green, fading to Black, in the air, from the Earth, building and gathering...

"But most of all, pal. You were right. I deserved no happiness, and I DID show you Hell. Thank you, Ryouga, for showing this nameless, souless wretch the way to go there.. where I belong."

Blackness thicker than steel, heavier than Death, more blinding than the Sun's fury, as a whisper none-the-less was heard a thousand miles away, before the Cataclysm.

****SHIN-NO-AKUMA SHI SHI HOKOUDAN!!!!****

Apocalypse, and finally, peace.

• ID goes on, reborn in a future time, in a man fated to redeem the lost soul Ranma, whether knowing of him or not
• Ranma destroys his own SOUL to end ID.. and a Pool in Jusenkyo gets it, preparing glory and horror to come to the next to fall in it.
• Ranma Saotome is gone, ID too. But the Warrior that both were is alive, with no memory.. cursed and blessed to live on, till the town he doesn't even remember is forgotten and forgiven him, by all the world.
• The Kami take him in hand, to bring the torment to a peaceful end. Of course, this DOES unleash Ranma's Chaos on Yggdrasil, whether he knows it or not..
• L-Sama quirks a eyebrow. a NEW Darkness, one of Honor and Grim Duty, is born in the lands Lina Inverse traverses.. and his Name is Ran Ma!
• This is depressing, you go do Something Else! Come on, you know you can do it!

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(Posted Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:18)

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